Edgartown selectmen Monday established a commercial oyster season beginning Dec. 1 for Sengekontacket Pond, the welcome consequence of an oyster propagation project that proved wildly successful.

As waters off the Vineyard begin to attract strong interest among wind energy developers, legislation now before Massachusetts lawmakers would spur significant changes in the way local consumers buy power from renewable energy sources.

A Sengekontacket oyster project has been such a success that the shellfish department will ask selectmen to open the pond to commercial oystering.

For the third straight year snowy owls are again moving south in large numbers. As of yet, though, there have been no sightings on the Vineyard this fall.

This past week, the sky was the limit. Two Taurid meteor showers, the North and South Taurids, made their appearance this month.

If you’ve had trouble getting oriented with the stars overhead, finding the Big Dipper may be a challenge.